CN212499996U

CN212499996U - Full-automatic battery replacing device for unmanned aerial vehicle

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Publication number: CN212499996U
Application number: CN202021248705.2U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 李坤煌; 和瑞江; 赖佳麟; 王志国; 刘奇; 熊正煜
Original assignee: Shenzhen High Innovation Technology Co ltd
Current assignee: Shenzhen High Innovation Technology Co ltd
Priority date: 2020-06-30
Filing date: 2020-06-30
Publication date: 2021-02-09
Anticipated expiration: 2030-06-30

Abstract

The utility model relates to a full-automatic battery replacing device of an unmanned aerial vehicle, which comprises a base and a clamping part, wherein the base is provided with a driving mechanism, and the driving mechanism comprises a motor, two synchronizing wheels and a synchronous belt; the motor shaft is connected with the two synchronous wheels through a synchronous belt, the two synchronous wheels are respectively connected with the two main shafts, one ends of the two main shafts are respectively sleeved with a clamping hook, and the fixing directions of the two clamping hooks are opposite; the other ends of the two main shafts are respectively provided with induction sheets, the induction sheets are in the same direction, and the inner sides of the induction sheets are provided with inductors; the motor shaft rotates and drives the main shaft and rotate, and unmanned aerial vehicle battery case both sides are equipped with the clamping part, and when needs trade the battery, the centre gripping hook passes the clamping part and rotates back centre gripping unmanned aerial vehicle battery through actuating mechanism and realizes getting and trade the battery. The utility model discloses simple structure, it is with low costs, to the required precision of unmanned aerial vehicle fall after the battery position low, the vertical direction does not have the error restriction, and control logic is simple and stability is strong.

Description

Full-automatic battery replacing device for unmanned aerial vehicle

Technical Field

The utility model belongs to the technical field of unmanned aerial vehicle, especially, relate to a full-automatic battery device of changing of unmanned aerial vehicle.

Background

With the increase of cognition on the application value of the unmanned aerial vehicle, the unmanned aerial vehicle has the rapid development trend in the consumption level market, the industrial level market and the military level market. Unmanned aerial vehicles are increasingly being used in many fields.

But unmanned aerial vehicle's duration becomes the biggest bottleneck that hinders unmanned aerial vehicle development, though lithium battery is the best battery of comprehensive properties on the existing market, still can't satisfy unmanned aerial vehicle duration demand completely, consequently must consider unmanned aerial vehicle problem of charging in the unmanned aerial vehicle use.

At present, the battery replacement of the unmanned aerial vehicle has the following defects: unmanned aerial vehicle need frequently charge, trade the battery, according to traditional mode by the manual battery that trades that needs huge human input of staff, and need personnel on duty, can't work in the field for a long time. In addition, because there is certain position error after unmanned aerial vehicle descends, it brings a difficult problem to trade the battery for unmanned aerial vehicle is automatic, need adopt complicated process to make unmanned aerial vehicle descend to accurate position.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

An object of the utility model is to provide a with low costs, to the required precision of unmanned aerial vehicle fall after the battery position low, the full-automatic battery device of changing of unmanned aerial vehicle that control logic is simple and stability is strong. Aim at solving among the prior art unmanned aerial vehicle and trade the electric process complicacy and to the accurate technical problem that requires height in unmanned aerial vehicle descending position.

In order to achieve the above object, the utility model adopts the following technical scheme: the full-automatic battery replacing device for the unmanned aerial vehicle comprises a base and a clamping part, wherein a driving mechanism is arranged on the base and comprises a motor, two synchronous wheels and a synchronous belt; the motor shaft is connected with the two synchronous wheels through a synchronous belt, the two synchronous wheels are respectively connected with the two main shafts, one ends of the two main shafts are respectively sleeved with a clamping hook, and the fixing directions of the two clamping hooks are opposite; the other ends of the two main shafts are respectively provided with induction sheets, the induction sheets are in the same direction, and the inner sides of the induction sheets are provided with inductors; the motor shaft rotates and drives the main shaft and rotate, and unmanned aerial vehicle battery case both sides are equipped with the clamping part, and when needs trade the battery, the centre gripping hook passes the clamping part and rotates back centre gripping unmanned aerial vehicle battery through actuating mechanism and realizes getting and trade the battery.

Further, unmanned aerial vehicle battery case is the T font, is equipped with battery joint portion on shell T font boss, battery joint portion is used for fixing unmanned aerial vehicle and battery.

Furthermore, the clamping part comprises an upper clamping part and a lower clamping part, and the inner surface shapes of the upper clamping part and the lower clamping part are matched with the shape of the spindle.

Further, an arc-shaped chamfer is arranged at an opening of the upper clamping part, and sliding sleeves are arranged on the inner surfaces of the upper clamping part and the lower clamping part.

Further, the sliding sleeve is made of a teflon material, and the clamping upper portion and the clamping lower portion are made of an aluminum alloy material.

Furthermore, the upper end face of the upper clamping part is provided with a height induction boss, the lower surface of the base is provided with a height inductor, and the height inductor induces the height position of the boss.

Further, the base lower surface still is equipped with the buffer, when getting the unmanned aerial vehicle battery, buffer and unmanned aerial vehicle battery top butt.

Further, be equipped with battery unlocking handle between unmanned aerial vehicle battery case and the battery joint portion, be equipped with the battery switch piece on the base, when getting the unmanned aerial vehicle battery, battery switch piece extrusion battery unlocking handle for unmanned aerial vehicle battery and the separation of battery joint portion.

Furthermore, one end of the main shaft, which is connected with the clamping hook, is provided with a leading end, and the leading end is conical or truncated cone-shaped.

The utility model has the advantages that: the utility model discloses a full-automatic battery device of changing of unmanned aerial vehicle, it rotates to drive the main shaft through setting up actuating mechanism on the base, be equipped with the supporting hook on the main shaft, be equipped with the clamping part on the battery, when the battery is traded to needs, the supporting hook passes the clamping part and realizes getting automatically through actuating mechanism rotation back centre gripping unmanned aerial vehicle battery and trades the battery, moreover, the steam generator is simple in structure, low in cost, it is low to the required precision of unmanned aerial vehicle falling behind the battery position, the vertical direction does not have the error restriction, control logic is simple and stability is strong.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present invention, the drawings required for the embodiments or the prior art descriptions will be briefly introduced below, and it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious for those skilled in the art to obtain other drawings without inventive labor.

Fig. 1 is a schematic perspective view of a fully automatic battery replacing device of the unmanned aerial vehicle of the present invention;

fig. 2 is an explosion diagram of the full-automatic battery replacing device of the unmanned aerial vehicle;

fig. 3 is a schematic diagram of the battery structure of the full-automatic battery replacing device for the unmanned aerial vehicle of the utility model;

fig. 4 is the utility model discloses the full-automatic battery device of changing of unmanned aerial vehicle device elevation.

Wherein, in the figures, the respective reference numerals:

10. a base; 101. A height sensor; 11. A main shaft; 111. A leading end;

12. a clamping hook; 13. An induction sheet; 14. A first inductor; 14', a second inductor;

15. a synchronizing wheel; 16. A synchronous belt; 17. A motor; 18. A buffer;

19. a battery switch block; 20. A clamping portion; 201. Clamping the upper part; 202. Clamping the lower part;

203. a sliding sleeve; 204. A height-sensitive boss; 21. A battery unlocking handle;

30. a battery clamping part; 40. A battery.

Detailed Description

Reference will now be made in detail to embodiments of the present invention, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein like reference numerals refer to the same or similar elements or elements having the same or similar function throughout. The embodiments described below with reference to the drawings are exemplary and intended to be used for explaining the present invention, and should not be construed as limiting the present invention.

In the description of the present invention, it is to be understood that the terms "length", "width", "upper", "lower", "front", "rear", "left", "right", "vertical", "horizontal", "top", "bottom", "inner", "outer", and the like indicate orientations or positional relationships based on those shown in the drawings, and are merely for convenience of description and simplicity of description, and do not indicate or imply that the device or element being referred to must have a particular orientation, be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, and thus, should not be construed as limiting the present invention.

Furthermore, the terms "first", "second" and "first" are used for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance or implicitly indicating the number of technical features indicated. Thus, a feature defined as "first" or "second" may explicitly or implicitly include one or more of that feature. In the description of the present invention, "a plurality" means two or more unless specifically limited otherwise.

In the present invention, unless otherwise expressly stated or limited, the terms "mounted," "connected," and "fixed" are to be construed broadly and may, for example, be fixedly connected, detachably connected, or integrally formed; can be mechanically or electrically connected; either directly or indirectly through intervening media, either internally or in any other relationship. The specific meaning of the above terms in the present invention can be understood according to specific situations by those skilled in the art.

As shown in fig. 1 to 4, an embodiment of the present invention provides a full-automatic battery replacing device for an unmanned aerial vehicle, including a base 10 and a clamping portion 20, wherein a driving mechanism is arranged on the base 10, and the driving mechanism includes a motor 17, two synchronizing wheels 15 and a synchronizing belt 16; a motor shaft is connected with two synchronous wheels 15 through a synchronous belt 16, the two synchronous wheels are respectively connected with two main shafts 11, one ends of the two main shafts 11 are respectively sleeved with a clamping hook 12, and the fixing directions of the two clamping hooks 12 are opposite; the other ends of the two main shafts 11 are respectively provided with an induction sheet 13, the fixed directions of the induction sheets 13 are the same, and the inner sides of the induction sheets 13 are provided with inductors; when the induction sheet touches the inductor, the motor is triggered to rotate forwards and backwards; the motor shaft rotates and drives the main shaft and rotate, and unmanned aerial vehicle battery case both sides are equipped with clamping part 20, and when battery 40 was traded in needs, clamping hook 12 passed clamping part 20 and rotated back centre gripping unmanned aerial vehicle battery through actuating mechanism and realized getting and trade battery 40.

Specifically, the full-automatic battery replacing device for the unmanned aerial vehicle is generally matched with an unmanned aerial vehicle airport (not shown). Deposit a plurality of backup batteries in the unmanned aerial vehicle airport, when unmanned aerial vehicle (not shown) low battery reported to the police, the automatic back navigation of unmanned aerial vehicle chance, descend to the platform of taking off and landing at unmanned aerial vehicle airport, after having traded the battery, unmanned aerial vehicle resumes to carry out corresponding task again, and the battery that trades down charges in the unmanned aerial vehicle airport, can circulate reciprocal repetitious usage. The preferred battery of this embodiment is installed perpendicularly and is carried out full-automatic taking and changing the battery on unmanned aerial vehicle. The motor preferably adopts step motor, after fixed on the unmanned aerial vehicle airport take-off and landing platform is fallen to in the unmanned aerial vehicle returning voyage, the full-automatic battery replacement device of unmanned aerial vehicle middle base 10 removes to unmanned aerial vehicle battery top position under the drive of unmanned aerial vehicle airport drive mechanism (not shown), after main shaft 11 on the base passed clamping part 20 on the unmanned aerial vehicle battery, step motor drove the main shaft rotatory, the motor stops when the response piece on the left side triggered second inductor 14', the second inductor was established to snatch the inductor. Preferably, the main shaft rotates 180 degrees, and at this moment, the clamping hook 12 on the main shaft 11 hooks the clamping part on the battery of the unmanned aerial vehicle after rotating 180 degrees, so that the battery of the unmanned aerial vehicle can be firmly grabbed. Then, in unmanned aerial vehicle airport drive mechanism drove the base and sent the battery to unmanned aerial vehicle airport battery jar, step motor drove main shaft counter-rotation 180 degrees, and the motor stops when the response piece on the right triggers first inductor 14, and first inductor 14 is established to loosen the inductor. At this time, the direction of the gripping hook 12 is the same as the opening direction of the gripping part, and the gripping hook 12 can be removed from the gripping part. Of course, the functions of the first sensor and the second sensor may be interchanged, for example, the first sensor is set as the grip sensor, and the second sensor is set as the release sensor. Then, the base 10 is driven by the airport transmission mechanism of the unmanned aerial vehicle to move to the position in front of the fully charged battery jar, the main shaft repeatedly captures the battery, the fully charged battery is captured and then sent to the battery clamping portion, and then the battery loosening step is executed. The battery replacing step is repeated as above, and is not described in detail herein. The mechanical clamping hand device capable of automatically replacing the battery is simple in structure and low in cost. This can be achieved by simple control logic. And the requirement on the position precision of unmanned aerial vehicle landing is low, the error in the horizontal direction is allowed to be +/-4mm, and no error limit exists in the vertical direction.

Further, unmanned aerial vehicle battery case is the T font, is equipped with battery joint portion 30 on shell T font boss, battery joint portion 30 is used for fixing unmanned aerial vehicle and battery.

Specifically, battery joint portion 30 outside is passed through the screw fixation on unmanned aerial vehicle, battery joint portion 30 and unmanned aerial vehicle battery swing joint, the joint on battery case T font boss. The full-automatic battery replacing device of the unmanned aerial vehicle can grab and place the battery from the battery clamping portion.

Further, the clamping part comprises an upper clamping part 201 and a lower clamping part 202, and the inner surface shapes of the upper clamping part 201 and the lower clamping part 202 are matched with the shape of the spindle.

Specifically, the clamping portion 20 is composed of an upper clamping portion 201 and a lower clamping portion 202, and can be fixed on the battery through screws, so that the structure is simple, and the installation is convenient. The inner surface shapes of the upper clamping part 201 and the lower clamping part 202 are matched with the shape of the main shaft, so that the main shaft and the clamping hooks sleeved on the main shaft can smoothly move upwards and downwards through the clamping parts.

Further, an opening of the clamping upper portion 201 is provided with an arc-shaped chamfer, and sliding sleeves 203 are arranged on the inner surfaces of the clamping upper portion 201 and the clamping lower portion 202.

Specifically, an arc-shaped chamfer is arranged at an opening of the clamping upper portion 201, and sliding sleeves 203 are arranged on the inner surfaces of the clamping upper portion 201 and the clamping lower portion 202, so that the position progress error allowance of the unmanned aerial vehicle battery is greatly increased. The inner surface is provided with a sliding sleeve 203 which is matched with the main shaft in motion, thereby further improving the upward and downward smoothness of the main shaft and the clamping hook sleeved on the main shaft.

Further, the sliding sleeve 203 is made of teflon, and teflon has the characteristic of high temperature resistance, has an extremely low friction coefficient, and plays a role in lubrication. The clamping upper portion 201 and the clamping lower portion 202 are made of aluminum alloy materials, and the aluminum alloy materials are convenient to process and light in weight.

Further, centre gripping upper portion up end is equipped with altitude mixture control boss 204, the base lower surface is equipped with altitude sensor 101, the high position of altitude sensor 101 response boss utilizes altitude sensor and the cooperation of altitude mixture control boss, when base downstroke altitude sensor senses the altitude mixture control boss, stops the downstream, the main shaft moves down, altitude sensor can accurate response battery's height, even the very big position error that leads to the battery of the equipment error of same batch unmanned aerial vehicle is big like this, unmanned aerial vehicle full-automatic change battery device also can not influenced to snatching of battery completely.

Further, the lower surface of the base is also provided with a buffer 18, when the unmanned aerial vehicle battery is taken, the buffer 18 is abutted to the top of the unmanned aerial vehicle battery, at the moment, the clamping hook 12 on the main shaft 11 hooks the clamping part 20 of the battery, and meanwhile, the buffer 18 presses the top of the battery downwards, so that the whole battery 40 is reliably grabbed. The number of buffers is preferably 2 symmetrically arranged.

Further, be equipped with battery unlocking handle 21 between unmanned aerial vehicle battery case and the battery joint portion 30, be equipped with battery switch piece 19 on the base, when getting the unmanned aerial vehicle battery, battery switch piece 19 extrusion battery unlocking handle 21 for the separation of unmanned aerial vehicle battery and battery joint portion, further link together the unmanned aerial vehicle battery firm with unmanned aerial vehicle.

Furthermore, one end of the main shaft connected with the clamping hook is provided with a leading end 111, and the leading end 111 is conical or truncated cone-shaped. The spindle 11 is guided through the clamping section by a conical or truncated cone shaped leading end, further increasing the positional progress error tolerance of the drone battery.

The utility model discloses a full-automatic battery device of changing of unmanned aerial vehicle, be equipped with actuating mechanism on the base, the supporting hook is established to the cover on the main shaft, when getting the battery, the main shaft passes certain contained angle of rotation under actuating mechanism's drive behind the clamping part, make the supporting hook snatch the clamping part, there is drive mechanism in the unmanned aerial vehicle cabin to drive down again, take off the battery from unmanned aerial vehicle and place the battery jar in charge, the main shaft rotates certain contained angle, make the direction of supporting hook unanimous with clamping part opening direction, thereby remove from the clamping part. Before moving to the battery jar that is full of electricity again, the main shaft passes the clamping part equally after, the clamping hook snatchs the battery that has been full of electricity to on with battery centre gripping to unmanned aerial vehicle. Therefore, the process of automatically replacing the battery by taking and placing the battery is completed. This simple structure, it is with low costs, low to the required precision of unmanned aerial vehicle post-landing battery position, the vertical direction does not have the error restriction, and control logic is simple and stability is strong.

The above description is only exemplary of the present invention and should not be taken as limiting the scope of the present invention, as any modifications, equivalents, improvements and the like made within the spirit and principles of the present invention are intended to be included within the scope of the present invention.

Claims

1. Full-automatic battery replacement device of unmanned aerial vehicle, its characterized in that: the clamping device comprises a base and a clamping part, wherein a driving mechanism is arranged on the base and comprises a motor, two synchronous wheels and a synchronous belt; the motor shaft is connected with the two synchronous wheels through a synchronous belt, the two synchronous wheels are respectively connected with the two main shafts, one ends of the two main shafts are respectively sleeved with a clamping hook, and the fixing directions of the two clamping hooks are opposite; the other ends of the two main shafts are respectively provided with induction sheets, the induction sheets are in the same direction, and the inner sides of the induction sheets are provided with inductors; the motor shaft rotates and drives the main shaft and rotate, and unmanned aerial vehicle battery case both sides are equipped with the clamping part, and when needs trade the battery, the centre gripping hook passes the clamping part and rotates back centre gripping unmanned aerial vehicle battery through actuating mechanism and realizes getting and trade the battery.

2. The full-automatic battery replacing device for unmanned aerial vehicles according to claim 1, characterized in that: unmanned aerial vehicle battery case is the T font, is equipped with battery joint portion on shell T font boss, battery joint portion is used for fixing unmanned aerial vehicle and battery.

3. The full-automatic battery replacing device for unmanned aerial vehicles according to claim 1, characterized in that: the clamping part comprises an upper clamping part and a lower clamping part, and the inner surface shapes of the upper clamping part and the lower clamping part are matched with the shape of the main shaft.

4. The full-automatic battery replacing device for unmanned aerial vehicles according to claim 3, characterized in that: an arc-shaped chamfer is arranged at the opening of the upper clamping part, and sliding sleeves are arranged on the inner surfaces of the upper clamping part and the lower clamping part.

5. The full-automatic battery replacing device for unmanned aerial vehicles according to claim 4, characterized in that: the sliding sleeve is made of a teflon material, and the clamping upper portion and the clamping lower portion are made of an aluminum alloy material.

6. The full-automatic battery replacing device for the unmanned aerial vehicle according to any one of claims 3, 4 or 5, wherein: the upper end face of the upper clamping part is provided with a height induction boss, the lower surface of the base is provided with a height inductor, and the height inductor induces the height position of the boss.

7. The full-automatic battery replacing device for unmanned aerial vehicles according to claim 1, characterized in that: the base lower surface still is equipped with the buffer, when getting unmanned aerial vehicle battery, buffer and unmanned aerial vehicle battery top butt.

8. The full-automatic battery replacing device for unmanned aerial vehicles according to claim 1, characterized in that: be equipped with battery unlocking handle between unmanned aerial vehicle battery case and the battery joint portion, be equipped with the battery switch piece on the base, when getting the unmanned aerial vehicle battery, the battery switch piece extrudees battery unlocking handle for unmanned aerial vehicle battery and the separation of battery joint portion.

9. The full-automatic battery replacing device for unmanned aerial vehicles according to claim 1, characterized in that: one end of the main shaft, which is connected with the clamping hook, is provided with a leading end, and the leading end is conical or truncated cone-shaped.